{"id":21803,"date":"2025-10-31T00:51:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T00:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/juventus-appoint-luciano-spalletti-as-manager-until-end-of-season\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T00:51:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T00:51:23","slug":"juventus-appoint-luciano-spalletti-as-manager-until-end-of-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/juventus-appoint-luciano-spalletti-as-manager-until-end-of-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Juventus appoint Luciano Spalletti as manager until end of season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Juventus have appointed former Italy head coach Luciano Spalletti as their manager until the end of the season. <\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 66-year-old replaces Igor Tudor, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cpq1nypl884o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">who was sacked<\/a> after the Serie A side&#8217;s defeat by Lazio on Sunday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tudor had joined the club in March as Thiago Motta&#8217;s replacement but left after seven months at the end of an eight-match winless run.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Spalletti led Napoli to the Serie A title in 2022-23 before taking charge of Italy, who had failed to qualify for the 2022 World Cup under former boss Roberto Mancini. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He helped them qualify for Euro 2024 where they were knocked out in the last 16 by Switzerland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, Spalletti was sacked by Italy in June after a World Cup qualifying defeat by Norway, with the Azzurri at risk of missing out on a third consecutive World Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Spalletti has also managed Inter Milan, Roma and Udinese in Serie A and won the Russian Premier League twice with Zenit St Petersburg. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Massimo Brambilla took interim charge of Juventus for their 3-1 win against Udinese on Wednesday which left them seventh in Serie A &#8211; six points behind leaders Napoli after nine games. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They are 25th in the league phase of the Champions League, having lost once and drawn twice in their opening three matches.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cy7epp72ek0o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juventus have appointed former Italy head coach Luciano Spalletti as their manager until the end of the season. The 66-year-old replaces Igor Tudor, who was sacked after the Serie A side&#8217;s defeat by Lazio on Sunday. Tudor had joined the club in March as Thiago Motta&#8217;s replacement but left after seven months at the end [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-european-football","category-world-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21805,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21803\/revisions\/21805"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}